[157388] in North American Network Operators' Group
169.254.0.0/16
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darren O'Connor)
Thu Oct 18 11:07:33 2012
From: Darren O'Connor <darrenoc@outlook.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 18:59:09 +0100
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I've just set up a vpn tunnel to Amazon's AWS and as part of the config the=
y required me to configure to /30 tunnels using addressing from the 169.254=
.0.0/16 space.
RFC3927 basically says that this address should only be used as a temp meas=
ure until the interface has a proper private or public address.
So what's the consensus then? Is their a problem using this space as link-l=
ocal address for routers here and there (I mean we have 65K addresses waste=
d in this block) or is it a strict no-no? And if no=2C why is Amazon using =
it?
Thanks
Darren
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